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| Register for one of the upcoming UCI NIH Boot Camp Informational Sessions | | The School of Medicine Research Development Unit will be hosting three virtual informational sessions about the UCI NIH Boot Camp — a comprehensive, multifaceted mentoring program designed to help faculty and career researchers apply for their first research grants from NIH. Attend a session to learn more about this program and how to apply for the upcoming 2024 UCI NIH Boot Camp! |
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| Register for the School of Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) Information Session | The Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) is a two-year structured program providing physician-scientists with intensive mentorship and opportunities to apply for their first independent, federally funded awards (K08, K23) or other equivalent external career development awards. Dr. Anand Ganesan, Associate Dean of Physician Scientist Development, will provide an overview of the 2024 PSTP program and application requirements.
Tuesday, Dec. 19, 10 to 11 a.m.
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| How to Draft and Publish Scientific Papers | The School of Medicine Office of Research is pleased to announce a two-day, in-person workshop, “How to Draft and Publish Scientific Papers,” conducted by Dr. Randy Levinson. Dr. Levinson brings extensive experience as a former scientific manuscript editor for Nature Research.
The workshop is organized in three separate but interrelated modules: (1) general concepts underlying effective scientific communication, (2) Method and Logic, or how to optimize the content and structure of a scientific paper, and (3) an explanation of the peer review and publication process. The workshop includes instruction, practical exercises, peer-to-peer interactions, and feedback on participants’ drafts.
Applicants must be members of the School of Medicine community (junior faculty, postdocs, research staff, clinical fellows and senior graduate and medical students). Attendance is limited to 24 individuals. Learn more and apply here.
Jan. 30 & 31, 2024
Location: College of Health Sciences Building & Irvine Hall on Main Campus
Application Deadline: Friday, Dec. 15, 2023
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| Update: NEW Date for the Joint Faculty Research Retreat! | The UCI School of Medicine is excited to announce a joint retreat with the UCI Samueli School of Engineering.
NEW DATE: Monday, March 11, 2024
Please plan to join us for this first-time-ever event! Registration and location details will be sent to your inbox soon. Please contact Emily Dawidoff if you have any questions.
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| Cancer Clinical Trial Bootcamp | The Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (CFCCC) is now accepting applications for the Cancer Clinical Trial Bootcamp – a 16-week program that guides clinical faculty and fellows in systematically designing and writing cancer-related investigator-initiated clinical trial protocols, with the goal of submitting a written protocol by the program's conclusion. Learn more about the program and eligibility requirements. For questions, email Kimberly Castellanos.
Program Dates: Feb. 28–June 5, 2024, every other Wednesday, 6 to 8 p.m.
Application Deadline: Jan. 16, 2024
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| NIH Training Grant Incentive Program | Training Grants (e.g., NIH T32) play a key role in supporting graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and increases our ability to recruit the best among them. The School of Medicine Office of Research appreciates the time commitment required to prepare and direct training grants and has the Training Grant Incentive Program for first-time submissions of new or competing renewal applications. Read the guidelines on the intake form.
Also, the School of Medicine Research Development Unit supports the preparation of training grant proposals; email somrd@uci.edu to get started. View current UCI Training Grants. View active NIH T32 funding calls. |
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| Interested in submitting for an NIH multi-component grant? | If you are interested in submitting for an NIH multi-component grant, such as the P or U mechanism, please remember to reach out to Dr. Al La Spada, Associate Dean for Research Development (alaspada@uci.edu). He can guide you through the process and connect you with potential collaborators.
Also, remember that the Research Development Unit (RDU) provides project management support for these mechanisms. To request RDU services, submit this Grant Support Request intake form. There is also an incentive program for these submissions, with more details in this Incentive Program intake form. |
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| You are Invited to Participate in a Pilot of Data Management and Sharing Plan Templates | Since March, NIH has engaged with the Federal Demonstration Partnership to pilot test two DMS plan templates. These templates were developed in close collaboration with staff and leadership from offices across NIH, and NIH now seeks your input on them.
FDP is also holding regular round table and town hall sessions to allow pilot participants to share their feedback directly with NIH staff. Register for the next town hall on Thursday, Dec. 14, at 1 to 2:30 p.m. ET.
NIH Program Officials that are participating in the pilot will be sharing their preliminary observations on the first rounds of DMS plans submitted to NIH. There will also be additional information shared on the kickoff of the second phase of the Pilot which will focus on cost principles and budgeting issues related to data sharing. Read more and provide input. |
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| Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on Opportunities and Challenges for the Collection, Use, and Sharing of Real-World Data (RWD) including Electronic Health Records, for NIH Supported Biomedical and Behavioral Research (NOT-OD-23-180) | View the RFI for details.
Deadline for responses: Dec. 14, 2023, at 11:59:59 p.m. ET
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| We have been collecting information about new awards sent in by the School of Medicine research community and have created this space to share the news.
Sunhee Jung, PhD (Cholsoon Jang lab, Biological Chemistry) received an award from the American Diabetes Association with her project, “Prevention and treatment of fructose-induced insulin resistance by dietary fibers.”
Have you or someone on your research team received a new grant, i.e., research funding? The School of Medicine Office of Research would like to know. Please fill out this short New Funding/Grant Survey form. |
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| DOE ARPA-E-Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy (IGNIITE) | ARPA-E IGNIITE will make awards (20 total and $10M in total funding) to support a new cohort of early-career innovators to develop the most disruptive and unconventional ideas into transformative new technologies across the full spectrum of energy applications. Read the funding announcement.
Deadline: Friday, Jan. 5, 2024 |
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| 2023–24 UCI Center-scale Multi-Investigator Research Seed Funding Program | | The 2023-24 UCI Center-Scale Multi-Investigator Research Seed Funding Program is aimed at investing in promising convergent research directions where internal seed level investment can lead to externally funded “center-scale” research programs. The UCI strategic plan identifies convergence research as one of the keys to achieving the vision of research growth that makes a difference. Here convergence refers to deep integration of knowledge bases, tools, techniques and ways of thinking from physical sciences, life sciences, engineering, computing and social sciences, humanities, arts, business and law to address major societal challenges. View the proposal guidelines.
Deadline: Monday, Jan. 15, 2024
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| Faculty Seed Grants in Cancer Research Funding Opportunity | The Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) is pleased to issue a Request for Proposals (PDF) for the 2024–25 Faculty Seed Grants. The CRCC is a systemwide, faculty-directed cancer research program that provides one-year seed grants for topics in any discipline that address any aspect of cancer, including its origins, prevention and cure. CRCC funds support meritorious research spanning all areas from basic research to applied clinical and community-based research in any field relevant to cancer. Eligible PIs must be members of the Academic Senate at one of the 10 UC campuses.
Please view the Request for Proposals (PDF) for other eligibility and submission requirements. Access additional links and more information on the “How to Apply” page.
Recommended applicant webinars: If you are a first-time applicant and/or new to SmartSimple, attendance is highly recommended.
Required Letters of Intent Due: Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at noon |
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| DoD-DARPA-Young Faculty Award (YFA) | DARPA YFA program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions in academia, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to expose them to DoD needs and DARPA’s mission. Read the funding announcement.
Deadline: Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024
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| Addressing Health and Health Care Disparities among Sexual and Gender Minority Populations (R01 - Clinical Trials Optional) (PAR-24-077) | The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support innovative observational and intervention-based research to identify and characterize the pathways and mechanisms through which health and health care disparities occur among sexual and gender minority populations of minoritized racial/ethnic and socio-economic statuses.
First available deadline: Feb. 5, 2024
Expiration date: Jan. 8, 2027
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| Short Courses to Promote the Broad and Rigorous Use of Common Fund Data (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-RM-23-014) | The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this NOFO will support educational activities with a primary focus on: Courses for Skills Development and Mentoring Activities. Programs will promote the use of multiple Common Fund datasets in rigorous biomedical research through short training courses and support the inclusion and retention of a diverse community of Common Fund data users through professional mentoring.
Deadline: Feb. 14, 2024
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| For More Funding Opportunities | For more funding opportunities and resources for your funding search, visit the Funding Opportunities page on the new and updated website for the UCI School of Medicine.
For a curated, searchable and filterable list of funding opportunities by NIH in their weekly NIH guide listserv, check out the School of Medicine Funding Search Tool. |
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| Upcoming Seminars & Events |
| Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar Series | Human neural assembloids to study the biology of human neural circuit development and disease, by Yuki Miura, PhD, Basic Life Research Scientist, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. Wednesday, Dec. 13, 11 a.m. to noon
Location: Plumwood House / Showa Denko Lecture Hall
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| Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series | Muscling Towards Cell Therapy, by Michael R. Hicks, PhD, assistant professor, Physiology & Biophysics, UCI School of Medicine
Wednesday, Dec. 13, 11 a.m. to noon
Location: Gross Hall, Thorp Conference Center, 4001
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| UCI GPS-STEM: Life Beyond PhD — Medical Writing and Consultant Career Pathway Using Expertise from the Lab | Medical Writing and Consultant Career Pathway Using Expertise from the Lab, by Chantelle Rein-Smith, PhD, principal medical writer and consultant at Whitsell Innovations, Inc. Learn more. Wednesday, Dec. 13, noon to 1 p.m. PT
Via Zoom
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| NSF Biosketches required to use SciEncv (for all proposals due after 10/23/23) | The National Science Foundation (NSF) will require biographical sketches and current and pending support to be generated using the online platform, SciENcv, for all NSF proposals due on or after Oct. 23, 2023. In preparation for complying with this requirement, UCI libraries has provided information on their websites and office hours on Wednesdays from 2 to 3 p.m. to assist with SciENcv questions, NIH and NSF documentation for Biosketches and current & Pending/In-Kind reporting.
Every Wednesday through Dec. 20, 2 to 3 p.m.
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| Department of Biological Chemistry Special Seminar | Identification of potential new therapeutic targets in kidney cancer, by Qing Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas Thursday, Dec. 14, 11 a.m. to noon
Location: Gillespie Neuroscience Research Facility, 1st Floor Conference Room
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| 2023 SoCal Genome Stability Symposium | The SoCal Genome Stability Symposium offers postdoctoral associates and graduate students the opportunity to connect with their peers from other laboratories and present their current research related to DNA damage signaling, DNA repair, telomere maintenance, DNA mutagenesis, chromosomal instability, and their implications in cancers and therapies. Learn more.
Location: USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, 3715 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, Calif. 90089
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| All of Us Researcher Workbench Support: Train-the-Trainer Sessions | Train-the-Trainer sessions are for researchers interested in learning to proficiently use the All of Us Researcher Workbench. Sessions include Introduction to the Workbench, Creating a Dataset: Workspaces, Phenotypes and Cohorts, and Genomic Analysis: Genome-wide association study (GWAS) and phenome-wide association study (PheWAS).
Attendees must be registered to use the Workbench. Visit ResearchAllofUs.org to register. Train-the-Trainer, an 8-week training course, is hosted by Baylor College of Medicine’s All of Us Evenings with Genetics Research Program. Sessions build on one another, but you can join sessions at any time.
Fridays in December, noon PT
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| Department of Biological Chemistry Special Seminar | Impacts of Biological Sexes on Cancer Risk and Therapy, by Sean X. Li, PhD, Professor of Medicine/Research Scientist III, co-leader of Cancer Biology Program, Cedars-Sinai Cancer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif. Monday, Dec. 18, 11 a.m. to noon
Location: Plumwood House / Showa Denko Lecture Hall
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| Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Seminars | Transcriptional control at coding and non-coding RNA loci, by Karen Adelman, PhD, professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 4 p.m. Location: Hybrid event at Plumwood House / Showa Denko Lecture Hall and via ZoomContact Shanti Iyer to join via Zoom. |
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| Genetics, Biomedical Computing and Genomics Monthly Meeting | What's New in Genomic Technologies?, by the Genomics Research and Technology Hub (GRT Hub) staff, including Melanie Oakes, PhD, manager of GRTH, Quy Nguyen, PhD, project scientist, Jenny Wu, PhD, director of the Chao Family Cancer Center Bioinformatics Shared Resource, and Ivan Chang, PhD, bioinformatics engineer Tuesday, Jan. 9, 10 to 11 a.m. PT
Location: Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 980 4294 1324
Passcode: 251322
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| UCI Conte Center Seminar Series | Functional Implications of Developmental Heterogeneity by Pat Levitt, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Senior Vice President and Director, The Saban Research Institute, Simms/Mann Chair in Developmental Neurogenetics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, WM Keck Provost Professor of Neurogenetics, Keck School of Medicine of USC. Hosted by the UCI Conte Center.
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 4 to 5 p.m. PT
Location: Hybrid event at Plumwood House lecture hall and via Zoom
Passcode: 764583 |
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| Neurodegeneration & Neurotherapeutics Collaboratory Symposium | | Join us for this symposium in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the La Spada Lab! Speakers include: Harry Orr, PhD, University of Minnesota; Kenneth (Kurt) Fischbeck, MD, NINDS / NIH; Jessica Young, PhD, University of Washington; Constanza Cortes, PhD, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology; Helen Miranda, PhD, Case Western Reserve University; and UCI faculty. Registration for this event is not required.
Thursday, Jan. 18, 9 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Location: Sue Gross Auditorium, 854 Health Sciences Quad, Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, UCI Medical School Campus
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| Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroscience / Conte Center | Wish to manipulate new stress-sensitive projections? Discover how early-life stress/adversity impacts brain maturation? Postdoc in amazing South California? Join the team!
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| Webinar Recording Available: Implementation of Simplified Review Framework for Research Project Grants | | NIH is implementing a simplified review framework for the majority of research project grants with receipt dates of Jan. 25, 2025, and beyond. Take some time to review the recording of the public webinar held on Nov. 3 and learn more. |
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| Allowable Costs to Improve Human Subjects Participation and Inclusion | | Did you know that you can pay for childcare for your research participants while they are doing study activities? Find similar ideas to enhance your inclusion, recruitment, or retention of research participants in NIH’s new one-page tool. Learn more. |
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| Check Case Studies on Inclusion Across the Lifespan | | As you plan your human subjects research, use the Inclusion Across the Lifespan Case Studies to help you determine if your proposed study population is appropriate. |
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| Are you considering applying for Limited Funding Opportunities? | | In most cases, interested applicants submit a pre-proposal to the Office of Research where a committee reviews all submissions and makes a recommendation to the Vice Chancellor for Research about which proposal should go forward from UCI. Limited opportunities are advertised on fundopp.uci.edu with a link to apply. However, if you do not see a limited opportunity listed, please contact the Research Development Unit. We can relay your application plans to the UCI Office of Research so they are aware of the number of interested PIs/units on campus and, if necessary, coordinate PIs or create a review process. |
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